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On Monday evening, at 9:30, surrounded by my father and her children, my mother died peacefully, in a room overflowing with love. I am so thankful I was here.

Mom’s life was filled with the joy of being a mother and wife. She supported my father in their life together, and was secure in the knowledge that her children and her grandchildren all followed their dreams. Dreams and careers which saw them travel to all parts of the globe with her and my father’s blessings.

She loved the embroidery I did, often asking my father to print a photo of something I was working on so she could show all her friends. She taught me to sew, to draw, to understand colour, to have confidence in my own creative ability. She was the perfect mother.

I am so sorry for your loss, Kathy, but so glad you were able to be with her at the end. You will appreciate her legacy more and more as time goes by and the raw grief eases, I am sure. And you will continue to pass that legacy on to your own students. Thus will her memory live on.

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The courses offered by “With Threaded Needle” were developed with four aims: 1) to provide excellent long distance teaching, 2) to embroiderers all over the world, 3) who wish to be part of an online community of embroiderers, 4) at a reasonable cost.
Course material is sent via email as a PDF so you can participate in a course whether you live next door to me or as far away as New Zealand. The projects we will create are designed for beginner to intermediate level students and help is only an email away! The cost for each course will always be reasonable, making a course with “With Threaded Needle” accessible to everyone. It’s possible to pay for your course in a single payment or to spread out the payments over the length of the course, with payments being as little as $8 a month.
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überlegen – to think, consider, ponder, deliberate

For centuries women have done needlework. It was a necessary skill, it was an accomplishment, it was a chance to appear to be active while giving ones mind free rein to consider, to think.
Calm, slow, careful stitches gave the appearance of activity, skill and usefulness, but the mind was free to think, to be quiet, to wander...
An unbroken thread of women, stitching quietly, their minds pondering, considering, thinking, deliberating...for ages and ages.